He had put his money, Mr. Bush, where your mouth was. So, your sleazy sycophantic henchman Mr. Gonzales had him append an asterisk suggesting his black-and-white answer wasn’t black-and-white, that there might have been a quasi-legal way of torturing people, maybe with an absolute time limit and a physician entitled to stop it, maybe, if […]
great headline: “Eye Ointment Can Cure Frog Fungusâ€
also a nice find, that will help save amphibians: Eye Ointment Can Cure Frog Fungus
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First Chimp to Sign Dies
if i had known that i was two blocks away when i visted friends in ellensburg, i’d have insisted on going to visit her: A female chimpanzee believed to be the first nonhuman to acquire human language has died of natural causes at the Washington State research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who first […]
Laika, first dog in orbit – Yahoo! News
Just nine days before the launch, Doctor Vladimir Yazdovsky chose one of them — 2-year-old Laika — for the mission. Stories about how she was chosen vary. Some say Laika was chosen for her good looks — a Soviet space pioneer had to be photogenic. Others say space doctors simply had a soft spot for […]